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Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology
BOOK REVIEWS
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easily assimilated, thanks to a remarkably lucid and compact style. Methods of exami nation are fully covered, including slitlamp microscopy and gonioscopy. The illustrations indicate the increasing, mysterious popular ity of Gothic-type Snellen charts overseas as well as here. The notable revisions are in the sections dealing with night vision, nystagmus, strabismus, Eales' disease, en docrine disorders and field defects in the diagnosis of brain tumors. A commendable innovation is the substitution of hesperanopia (evening blindness) for nyctalopia. Newly added topics include the embryopathies, photocoagulation, alpha chymotrypsin and pleoptics.
Pediatric Ophthalmology Foundation. Volume 1, number 1, January, 1964, 95 pages. Annual subscription: $10.00. We take pleasure in announcing the launching of a new ophthalmic journal that promises to fill a void in our literature. Pediatric ophthalmology is slowly but surely developing a place of its own and there are already, in this country especially, an in creasing number of ophthalmologists who give full time to this specialty within a spe cialty. It is time, therefore, that these spe cialists should have a periodical to turn to for the publication of their observations and to put the spotlight, so to speak, upon the important work in this area.
The general excellence of this book is impaired occasionally by errors of commis sion and omission—particularly the latter. Among the sensitizing agents determining blepharitis, neomycin, one of the most fre quently used topical antibiotics, is not men tioned. In herpeitc keratitis, aureomycin is advised instead of idoxuridine (IDU) and the practitioner is not warned of the danger of topical corticosteroids in this affection. The bizarre ideas of some Americans are seriously noted but the substantial contri butions are too often overlooked such as corticosteroids systemically in herpes zoster ophthalmicus, sodium versenate (EDTA) in lime burns of the cornea, Phospholine Iodide and demecarium bromide in glaucoma sim plex and numberless others.
The Editorial Board is an elaborate and impressive one. It consists of many familiar names of active and distinguished workers both here and abroad. In addition, there are a number of consulting and associate editors. The editor-in-chief, Dr. Abraham, is well known for his activities in the study of ocu lar muscle imbalances and for his contribu tions in the use of miotics for the treatment of accommodative squint. The contents of the journal consist of original articles, case reports, reports on meetings, items of special interest, editorials, book reviews and abstracts. The first issue leads off with an excellent article by J. François and M. T. Matton-Van Leuven on "Chromosome abnormalities in ophthalmol ogy." Other authors on pertinent subjects are Linksz, S. A. Fox, Jampolsky, Gordon, Jacobson and Scheie, et al. Case reports are submitted by T. Edwards and the editor. This first number of this new journal is a good one. We wish this bold new venture in the extensive field of ophthalmic journalism all the success and look forward with pleasure to the subsequent numbers. Derrick Vail.
American ophthalmologists may flinch less at the price of new books when they note that comparable books are even more costly abroad. For this paperback the French M.D. pays the equivalent of $14.17. However, it is delightful reading and, in spite of limita tions, very much worth while. James E. Lebensohn.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC
OPHTHALMOLOGY.
Edited by Samuel V. Abraham, M.D. Published quarterly by the Pan-American Publishing Company, California, for the
867
easily assimilated, thanks to a remarkably lucid and compact style. Methods of exami nation are fully covered, including slitlamp microscopy and gonioscopy. The illustrations indicate the increasing, mysterious popular ity of Gothic-type Snellen charts overseas as well as here. The notable revisions are in the sections dealing with night vision, nystagmus, strabismus, Eales' disease, en docrine disorders and field defects in the diagnosis of brain tumors. A commendable innovation is the substitution of hesperanopia (evening blindness) for nyctalopia. Newly added topics include the embryopathies, photocoagulation, alpha chymotrypsin and pleoptics.
Pediatric Ophthalmology Foundation. Volume 1, number 1, January, 1964, 95 pages. Annual subscription: $10.00. We take pleasure in announcing the launching of a new ophthalmic journal that promises to fill a void in our literature. Pediatric ophthalmology is slowly but surely developing a place of its own and there are already, in this country especially, an in creasing number of ophthalmologists who give full time to this specialty within a spe cialty. It is time, therefore, that these spe cialists should have a periodical to turn to for the publication of their observations and to put the spotlight, so to speak, upon the important work in this area.
The general excellence of this book is impaired occasionally by errors of commis sion and omission—particularly the latter. Among the sensitizing agents determining blepharitis, neomycin, one of the most fre quently used topical antibiotics, is not men tioned. In herpeitc keratitis, aureomycin is advised instead of idoxuridine (IDU) and the practitioner is not warned of the danger of topical corticosteroids in this affection. The bizarre ideas of some Americans are seriously noted but the substantial contri butions are too often overlooked such as corticosteroids systemically in herpes zoster ophthalmicus, sodium versenate (EDTA) in lime burns of the cornea, Phospholine Iodide and demecarium bromide in glaucoma sim plex and numberless others.
The Editorial Board is an elaborate and impressive one. It consists of many familiar names of active and distinguished workers both here and abroad. In addition, there are a number of consulting and associate editors. The editor-in-chief, Dr. Abraham, is well known for his activities in the study of ocu lar muscle imbalances and for his contribu tions in the use of miotics for the treatment of accommodative squint. The contents of the journal consist of original articles, case reports, reports on meetings, items of special interest, editorials, book reviews and abstracts. The first issue leads off with an excellent article by J. François and M. T. Matton-Van Leuven on "Chromosome abnormalities in ophthalmol ogy." Other authors on pertinent subjects are Linksz, S. A. Fox, Jampolsky, Gordon, Jacobson and Scheie, et al. Case reports are submitted by T. Edwards and the editor. This first number of this new journal is a good one. We wish this bold new venture in the extensive field of ophthalmic journalism all the success and look forward with pleasure to the subsequent numbers. Derrick Vail.
American ophthalmologists may flinch less at the price of new books when they note that comparable books are even more costly abroad. For this paperback the French M.D. pays the equivalent of $14.17. However, it is delightful reading and, in spite of limita tions, very much worth while. James E. Lebensohn.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC
OPHTHALMOLOGY.
Edited by Samuel V. Abraham, M.D. Published quarterly by the Pan-American Publishing Company, California, for the